Time to concentrate on Womans Soccer - Bye AFCON

 BYE AFCON!!

It;s time to move on to Women's Soccer. Our men can't seem to do it. Change of manager, coach hundreds of thousand of rands spent, SAFA's and our nations hopes are once again crushed.
Why can't we give this amount of attention to our women? I believe if we did, they would make us proud, which would cause a larger embarrassment for our male soccer team.

After the London Olympics, our Minister of Sport Mr Fikile Mbalula stood up and spoke of the support and financial assistance that MUST be given to our women. Sadly enough, his statement left his lips and remained as a frozen bubble speech. Our Sports and recreation department only funds individuals, yet our local district football associations and SAFA will not register any team that does not belong anywhere. How are we ever going to get this right, when the left toe dangles out of the torn right shoe! That doesn't make sense! Well! that's what it's like dealing with our Sports and recreation department.

We are starting to prepare for our new season which is long overdue. The excitement and anticipation of new players joining Croesus and the surprises that await us. We will win the league this year. Our minds are set to destroy any competition that dares to take us on. Our ladies are talented and dedicated, which is a crying shame that a lot of our ladies  are deserving of a place in Banyana Banyan women's team. This must change! Coaches like Sheryl Botes are not deserving of their position. You could be the greatest player in the country, but if you do not want to stay at the High performance centre in Pretoria, well there goes your dreams you don;t get to play for your country!! Strange, most of the girls that play in the under 20 National team are nowhere to be seen in the soccer leagues. Nobody even knows that they exist.

Training twice a day at the High Performance Centre by Madame Botes must have been an embarrassment for her, when her players came across the newly formed JVW girls coached by Janine Van Wyk and won only by 4 goals to 0. Take in consideration that Janine's team only trained together once and was mixed with young players. It goes to show you, that you can have the qualifications and certificates as long as lake Victoria, but unfortunately cannot apply what you have learnt. This is the reason why our soccer in this country is where it is. Take Eric the Croesus coach, does not have the qualifications, but at least he can COACH!! Shame on you SAFA, time to re assess your coaches. Get rid of Sheryl Botes who only ever goes to scout players from Falcons and when she made her appearance at the Engen tournament, she basically spent a whole 5 minutes.

People like Janine, Eric and Greg Green who spend endless and trying times to up lift women's soccer deserve an acknowledgement in SAFA's hall of achievers!!

Janine Van Wyk